World Headlines Review: Tunisia’s Deposed Ben Ali Family: Canadian...
Yesterday reports appeared in the Canadian press, TV and radio, about the arrival in Montreal of family members of the deposed Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his wife, Leila, nee...
View Article"Bradford Spring": George Galloway rises again
This guy must have nine lives. BRADFORD – Britain’s mainstream parties were reeling Friday after firebrand George Galloway, a fierce critic of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, won a sensational return...
View ArticleDrive-by Planet: George Galloway: stunning landslide victory in Bradford West
George Galloway, the British MP banned in 2009 from entry into Canada has achieved a stunning electoral victory in the UK. Standing for the Respect Party, Galloway pulled off an historic victory in...
View ArticlePolitics, Re-Spun: Social Justice and Democracy Activists Fool their Foes on...
Long time social justice and democracy activists fooled their foes on April Fools this year giving the world a double victory with Aung San Suu Kyi and George Galloway winning by-elections to restore...
View ArticleDavid Climenhaga's Alberta Diary: About Conrad Black’s return: surely...
Lord Black gesticulates at Communications Energy and Paperworkers Local 115A President Andy Marshall in 1999. Below: Omar Khadr, Jason Kenney, George Galloway, Farouk Adatia. Let’s mark this...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. - Annie Lowrey reports on the evidence showing that the perpetually-increasing inequality pitched by the right as an economic plan actually serves to damage...
View Articledrive-by planet: Kenney wants extra power to bar people from Canada for...
Harper government immigration minister, Jason Kenney, is pushing for additional ministerial powers that would allow him to bar people from Canada for “public policy considerations.” Considerations...
View ArticleAlberta Diary: Wicked Witch war of words: ‘Has Thatcher bashing crossed a...
The Wicked Witch of the West from the Wizard of Oz. Below, Ezra Levant in an orange wig with a can of Orange Crush mocks Jack Layton’s funeral. RIP or give it a rest? Oh my – quelle horreur! – naughty...
View Articledrive-by planet: George Galloway warns against western intervention in Syria:...
In this speech George Galloway is in top rhetorical form. He takes a few well aimed shots at western hypocrisy, pointing out that while the U.S. et al are allied with some of the most reactionary and...
View Articledrive-by planet: Video: George Galloway’s impassioned speech opposing attack...
One of the highlights of the British parliamentary debate on Syria was the rousing speech delivered by Respect Party MP for Bradford West, George Galloway. He delivered with trademark conviction and...
View Articledrive-by planet: RT’s Breaking the Set: George Galloway on ‘Killing of Tony...
In this RT interview British Respect Party MP, George Galloway, talks about his upcoming documentary film The Killing of Tony Blair. He also gives his views on the harassment of The Guardian by...
View Articledrive-by planet: Ultra-nationalists and fascist thugs – tools of imperialist...
The protests in the Ukraine that began last November in Kiev’s Independence Square – the Maidan – were staged to protest president Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to back out of a plan to join a trade...
View Articledrive-by planet: Israeli propaganda and spin seeks to justify Gaza attack:...
Top: Wounded Palestinian girl following strike in northern Gaza strip Below: Israeli strike on buildings in Khan Younis / Palestinian boy with younger wounded sibling upon learning family was killed...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Was the Senate report on ‘countering’ the threat of...
PHOTOS: Conservative members of the Senate of Canada answer questions about their “interim report” on countering terrorist threats to Canada. Actual Conservative Senators may not appear exactly as...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: ‘I had an abortion and I thank God I was able to,’ says...
PHOTOS: St. Albert MLA Marie Renaud. Below: A young Jason Kenney in a 1990 TV interview, Archbishop Emeritus John R. Quinn of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, and British MP George Galloway. Marie...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Want to know how to deal with Steve Bannon? Oddly enough,...
Want to know how to deal with the irresponsible refusal by the organizers of the so-called Munk Debate to cancel their invitation to former Trump election strategist Steve Bannon to come to Canada and...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: Seriously, what’s the good of an effective carbon tax if...
Recent political developments in France and Alberta, though quite different in tone, suggest carbon taxes may not be a viable way to address climate change – leastways not without reaching an unlikely...
View ArticleAlberta Politics: The ‘Chicago Principles’ are code for the right of the...
“Free speech in universities” is nowadays a rallying cry for the snowflakes of the extremist right, who can dish it out but can’t take it. It should come as no surprise, therefore, that pushing...
View ArticleAndy Lehrer: Meir Weinstein of JDL nailed by CBC Radio News World at Six
CBC Radio News has a report this evening on Meir Weinstein and the Jewish Defence League. Where other media outlets have failed to dig further into Weinstein’s past or that of the JDL the CBC managed...
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